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3.11.2009

When you’re ready to graduate up from your Meggy Jr RGB: based on the “retro-minimalist homebrew game console” Uzebox Project, Ladyada’s Fuzebox is an even more self-contained, open-source DIY 8-bit console kit that sports the following specs:

Full 256 simultaneous output colors, 240×224 pixel resolution;
Tile & sprite support;
Two player ports, either with Super Nintendo or classic Nintendo controllers;
NTSC RCA composite and S-video out (PAL not supported at this time);
4 channel output mono audio for music and effects;
SD/MMC card support for future expansion;
Built on an Atmel AVR core, 64KB flash and 4KB of RAM;
Main microcontroller chip is preprogrammed with an STK500-compatible (sometimes referred to as Arduino-compatible) bootloader;
Write game code in C, using fully open source tools on any platform

The demo videos are all disappointingly, if understandably, hewing pretty close to clones of established retro hits — have any of you managed to create anything original with either the Uze or Fuze?